Payton goes shopping. She finds two shirts. One costs $24.97 and the other costs $13.75. She needs to know if she has enough money to buy both shirts. Using mental math, she rounds $24.97 to $25.00 and adds that to $13.75 to get $38.75. How does Payton need to compensate to find the exact total of the two shirts?

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Mathematics

Kai Christensen

10 November, 15:03

Payton goes shopping. She finds two shirts. One costs $24.97 and the other costs $13.75. She needs to know if she has enough money to buy both shirts. Using mental math, she rounds $24.97 to $25.00 and adds that to $13.75 to get $38.75. How does Payton need to compensate to find the exact total of the two shirts?

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Ellie Goodwin · Answer 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

Given

One shirt cost $24.97 and other costs $13.75

Using mental math, Payton rounds $24.97 to $25

and add it to $13.75 to get $38.75

in order to get correct total of two shirts Payton needs to subtract $0.03 from the final amount as she round 0.97 to 1 initially

so final amount will be 38.75-0.03=$38.72